Doughboys - Unlocked! Wawa with Carl Tart & Christine Nangle (LIVE)

Episode Date: January 9, 2020

Unlocked! For our first ever show in Philly, we're joined by Carl Tart (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and hometown hero Christine Nangle (Inside Amy Schumer, The Simpsons) to review Wawa, a ...convenience store iconic to the city. Plus, the first-ever live edition of the Snack Stack.Recorded live at Punch Line Philly on Sept 5th, 2019.Sources for this week's intro include:Everything You Need to Know About Wawa, the World’s Most Beloved Convenience Store (By Jessica Gentile)https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/201354/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wawa-the-world-s-most-beloved-convenience-store/Creating the Living Brand (By Neeli Bendapudi and Venkat Bendapudi)https://hbr.org/2005/05/creating-the-living-brandConvenience Cult? (By Rob Walker)https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/magazine/30wwln_consumed.html?_r=050 Things About Wawa for Wawa’s 50th Anniversary (By Dan McQuade)https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/04/16/wawa-50th-anniversary-50-facts/The Cult Of Wawa (By Amy Lombard)https://mashable.com/2016/03/09/the-cult-of-wawa/Wawa Corporate Websitehttps://www.wawa.com/aboutThe Inside Story of Wawa, the Beloved $10 Billion Convenience Store Chain Taking Over the East Coast (By Maria Aspan)https://www.inc.com/magazine/201806/maria-aspan/wawa-convenience-store-pennsylvania.html13 Fun Facts About Wawa (By Erin McCarthy)http://mentalfloss.com/article/56255/13-fun-facts-about-wawa#targetText=1.,as%20the%20Millville%20Manufacturing%20Company.Wawa Bathrooms Voted Number 1 In Pa. And Number 2 In U.S. (by Stephanie Farr)https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/wawa-best-bathrooms-gas-stations-pennsylvania-20180516.htmlWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is a headgum podcast. Embrace Change. This is one of the six core values espoused by a privately held convenience store chain that's beloved by residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And this company, named for the Ojibwe word for goose, Embrace Change as few businesses have, beginning operations as an iron foundry way back in 1803. It morphed into a dairy that delivered doctor certified milk in the early 20th century, before shifting again into its current retail state with the disappearance of the milkman in the 1960s. But as locals will tell you, don't be fooled by the gas pumps. This is no mere convenience store. Offering an expansive freshly prepared food menu that includes made to order hoagies and specialty drinks, the chain's better than it has any business being fair led to it developing a fervent following bordering on rabbit. Jackass Cast Member and Pocahontan Township native Bom Bam Margera even has a tattoo of the shop. And being classified as a convenience store, conveniently enough, exempted it from blue laws, allowing it to be the rare restaurant open on Sundays in the 60s.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Its employees seem to love it too. The chain has an astonishingly low turnover rate in the notoriously transient retail sector, and many of its workers train at the chain's own co-branded university. Beyond the food, the stores enhance the customer service experience by offering an array of appealing amenities like no fee ATMs and number two in the industry public restrooms, just behind rival chain sheets. Today with 800 privately owned locations, however this chain will choose to shift as it inevitably embraces change in the future, history indicates it will uphold another of its six core corporate values. Delight Customers This Week on Doughboys, Wawa! Thank you guys, go Burtz. Guys, we're very excited to be here in Philadelphia, but first up, give it up for YouSong and Emma, just helping us out right now. Could not do the show and especially this tour without them, and we also couldn't do it without my co-host. This week's roast is courtesy of Andrew Clark. Let me introduce him, Rocky with twice the CTE and half the eyesight, The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell!
Starting point is 00:03:37 What's up, Billy? Oh boy, what a roast. A lot of Rocky takes. I will say that... I went to the bathroom last second. Why did you do that? I don't know. Let's just say I got some soggy pants. It is not good. I ran back to catch your roast. You waited too long.
Starting point is 00:04:20 I know, I fucked up, I don't know. That's what you get for not wearing a diaper for once. I had a similar mishap earlier. Our train was boarding, we rode the Amtrak here. No, this was bad. It was the same thing. Who loves the choo-choo? Yeah, I love the train. I don't know how you fucked up so much where you're like, I gotta go to the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:04:43 And I was like, can I go to the bathroom? I was like, no. You did not say that. I said no, and I was like, I'm just kidding. Do whatever the fuck you want. You're an adult. Everyone's assessment was that I had plenty of time. No, we did not. I did not say you had plenty of time. I feel like everyone said you were good. And the lines started moving. You almost missed the train. I didn't almost miss the train. I just had to hop back in line.
Starting point is 00:05:05 And you carried my Gatorade and Carl rolled my bag out. It was fine. And then you peed immediately after the train. Do you have a no pissing on train rules or something? I had a tied one on last night, let's just say. We had a little over... You had like two glasses of wine. I had... That was a lot for me.
Starting point is 00:05:25 No, I got ripped. I get wine mom drunk at my age. I have a couple glasses of Chardonnay and then I'm hungover the next morning. I was feeling pretty dehydrated, so I drank a bunch of water in the morning. I got to the Union Station in what city were we in? Washington, D.C. And I had to... Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:05:46 I know. You said I had CTE? I had to hear your name. Last night, it was the first stop on the tour. I know. And then I drank a Gatorade on the train to replenish my electrolytes. And then I had to urinate again. It was two hours.
Starting point is 00:06:05 I drank a big beverage. This is reasonable. So boring. This is reasonable. You asked me to explain why I urinated twice in a two-and-a-half-hour span, which is a reasonable amount of urine for adult men to dispense. We've talked about this. We know why.
Starting point is 00:06:20 Yes. You're a piss edger. We talked about this before. You like to wait. You like to hold it. You like how it feels. If I was a piss edger, I would take... I would have fewer urination instances than average,
Starting point is 00:06:37 because I would be trying to maximize the pull, right? Like, trying to maximize the resistance. You tell me. I don't know what you do. Mitch, I introduced you as the Spoon Man, because last night, our second show in D.C., a development took place. I am the Spoon Man.
Starting point is 00:06:55 The Spoon Man is back. The Spoon Man's back. For Philly, I've rowed upon the Skookle River, Nick. I've had Pats and Genos, and they're not that great, right, everyone? And you've never even fucking been to Philly. You piece of shit. But you know what cheesesteak is?
Starting point is 00:07:22 The great D'Alesandros? That's so pathetic. A guy told us that earlier. I'm just trying to trust him. And you maybe got it right. Yeah, I think so. That's right, right? D'Alesandros?
Starting point is 00:07:37 Is it just... Okay. I didn't hear what he said. People are sending me roasts of you, by the way. Are they? Yes, I want to... Well, we have a packed house. There's rock and roll bands here tonight.
Starting point is 00:07:51 The group... Someone from the band, The Pairs. Pairs and Seagull. And one of them said, instead of Meek Mill, that you're Meek Spill. Oh, that's pretty good. You told me earlier, by the way, there's someone in the front row with the...
Starting point is 00:08:06 Yeah, Heathcliff shirt, which I very much appreciate. Yeah, the... There's some Quincy here tonight, too. Quincy seeped into Philly. Really? Yeah. Who's here? My sister's friend, Mo Sullivan is here.
Starting point is 00:08:20 Oh, hey. How about that? That's exciting. Yeah. Can I say what I texted earlier? Yeah. Okay, wait. Tell me that Pairs and Seagulls are here.
Starting point is 00:08:31 Someone from the band, Pairs, and someone from the band, Seagulls, are here. What? Pairs and Seagulls are here? What is this? A 12 days of Christmas? The guy for Pairs is applauding. You liked it.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Nick, what do you think of Philly so far? I mean, you won't be able to see it at all. No, I mean, I don't really have much of an... Outside of the chains, which we spent some time in and had some meals in, like I don't know how much of an honest assessment I can have of this place. I'm doing like a Philly speed run.
Starting point is 00:09:05 I got in and then we went to our lodging and then we went to go eat food, then we went back to our lodging, then we went here. It's been like a seven-hour work. I don't like how you say our lodging. It's strange. All right, sorry.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Yeah, we ate, I slept, and then came here. That's it. Yeah. But Philly rules, Nick. My understanding is that today, and I don't follow the NFL, but today is opening day. Yes.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Today is opening day. Yes, go birds. How many of you made that mistake? I bet you there's a lot of people today who are like, fuck, it's an NFL opening night. Shit. Fucking Doughboyz tickets.
Starting point is 00:09:43 This sucks. Well, one of them kind of looks like alignment, and one of them kind of looks like an assistant coach. You look like you could work at Penn State. Jesus Christ. You're a Sandusky boy, my friend. You want to go by Penn State so bad? We could swing by real quick.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Can I get his autograph? Nick, he's in jail. Fucked up. Sorry. Oh, it's all right. Me, you can do anything. You're just commenting on it. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:10:38 I'm a hero kind of. Speaking of football, my understanding is that there is a player for the Philadelphia Eagles, a quarterback whose nickname is Big Dick Nick. Is that true? That's true. Which, who is that?
Starting point is 00:10:53 It's Nick Foles. Nick Foles, the QB? Yes. But he's not, he's not, yeah, he's gone. Oh, he's gone. He's gone anymore, yeah. What's that? They were saying that his dick is still big.
Starting point is 00:11:05 His dick is still big. Oh, his dick stayed here. Oh, it's like the Liberty Bell. It's just like a monument in Philly now. That's nice. You're going to be Googling Nick Foles all night tonight. I'm going to be hearing fucking keyboard noises coming from your room at 3 a.m.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Those football pants don't leave a lot to the imagination. Get a pretty good outline there. How else are you, like, how are you feeling? Because we've done a lot of travel, we've done a lot of heavy eating. I'm sick, you know this. I'm sick. I don't think you're sick.
Starting point is 00:11:39 I think you're telling yourself you're sick, but I think you're actually in pretty good health. It feels like there's a black hole at the end of my throat. It feels terrible. Do you mean you're esophagus? What do you mean? Look, let's not think technical here, okay? My throat hurts, that's all I know.
Starting point is 00:11:57 But what you characterise is a black hole. I don't know, it feels like a mass back there. Well, a black hole is something from which no matter can escape. All right. Fuck you, for God's sakes. My throat hurts. I just didn't understand what picture you were trying to paint.
Starting point is 00:12:13 You couldn't even make just a joke about how I am like a black hole, food goes in there or something and it doesn't come out. Oh, got it, yeah. No, this was more fun. To break it down. No, my throat hurts. I slept most of the day.
Starting point is 00:12:29 I didn't get to see a lot of you, which is good, of course. You woke me up, though. You're a little human alarm. So you tasked me with waking you up, which was no easy feat. You were taking a nap, you were getting some shut-eye. Spoon Man was catching some z's.
Starting point is 00:12:45 I knocked on your door, wrapped on your bedroom door to no avail. What the fuck is going on here? You didn't hear me. I had to open your door. I was already going to walk in there and you were going to be, you know, splayed out or something. And...
Starting point is 00:13:01 What? Like I was going to walk in and you just be kind of laying there American beauty style. With rose petals around me? Yeah, with some... some places... some appropriately placed rose petals. No, but I just thought I might go in there
Starting point is 00:13:17 and see something that maybe I didn't want to see and maybe you wouldn't have wanted to see. You thought I was cranking it in the bedroom? I didn't think you were cranking it because I knew you were asleep, but you know sometimes when you're asleep, you'll like throw off your covers or you'll just like discard an article of clothing. No.
Starting point is 00:13:33 Is that not a universal experience? You slink out of your clothes like a snake when you sleep? I will sometimes shed some layers if I get hot at night and I won't realize I've done it. Oh, God. But anyway, I pair that sound a universal experience. You shared a room with Yousong
Starting point is 00:13:49 a couple nights. He didn't experience that, I hope. And so... but you were so... you were like completely out and then you were snoring, you were sawing logs. I really had to do a lot to rouse you. It was not easy. Oh, poor Nick.
Starting point is 00:14:05 No, I'm just saying, I really... it was not an... it was no easy feat. Oh, wow, you're a hero. You woke me up. Fuck you. I didn't say I was a hero. I just said you were sleeping very heavily. Okay, sorry. Someone's cheering for you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Thank you, that one person. Mitch, uh... I'm looking at Nick's running show diary and it just says Google Nick Foles later. Mitch, should we introduce our guests? Yes. We got some hometown guests, too. Oh, your drop.
Starting point is 00:14:37 You forgot your drop. Oh, for fuck's sake, the drop. You forgot your drop. You forgot your drop. You forgot your drop. Oh, for fuck's sake, the drop. The third... third consecutive show you've forgotten to do your drop. Howdy-how to Spoon Nation.
Starting point is 00:14:57 And you song or am I hitting with that drop? And it's called How Did This Get Played? They ripped off a show that people like. Okay, let's listen to the trailer. Ah! Is this whole show this loud? And this is Heather and Campbell. And we love video games.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I like your magic. Mitch listening to this just being so pissed. Hey, everyone. Thanks for listening. There it is. Hayes was right. I do listen to that and get pissed. That drop was from... Are you ready for me to... You song, I lost...
Starting point is 00:15:45 You texted it to me and I lost it already. Oh, wait, I got it. It's from Shampooedler. Oh, Shampooedler. How about that? And the email... The body of the email just says, hey. That's it. That's nice. Why do you live to start shit? Why is that like your agenda?
Starting point is 00:16:01 Who, me? Yeah, you live to start shit. Because I don't like you fucking... You're a coward man. A worm coward man? Yeah, you're a worm coward man. You heard me. How so? You're a fucking little worm. You hide in the dirt.
Starting point is 00:16:17 And I dig up that dirt and I say, look me in the face, you fucking worm. Again, I'm lost in your metaphor. I don't understand. You're a coward. How am I a coward? I don't know. I love you. And I was...
Starting point is 00:16:35 I had a bunch of rose petals around me, but you didn't walk in at it all the time. I will just say that yes, I have a second podcast that I've started. It does not... It does not mean I'm not doing... Continuing to do this podcast with you, my friend. And we will...
Starting point is 00:16:53 I don't think you... Maybe you're worried... What the hell? I wasn't worried, but now you're stuttering and... No, I'm not... I'm being sincere here. I'm being earnest. I'm not worried about it, baby. No boys on top. There's clearly something going on
Starting point is 00:17:09 because you're so... You have such a strong... No, there isn't. I'm also not the place in time to do this. Bring out our guests for God's sake. This is not the place in time to discuss this thing that I started with this drop I chose to play in front of an audience.
Starting point is 00:17:25 It's a fun drop. Get our guests out, please. I'm just saying... Fuck you! Get the guests out! I'm just saying, I think it's okay for me to do another podcast. I don't give a shit. Then we're fine. Then we got nothing to worry about. Do a million podcasts.
Starting point is 00:17:43 All right, great. I will. Maybe I will. Maybe I'll start some more. Some... A tepid reaction to that. That's enough for me to go off of. I can build an empire. Mitch, we've got some... We've got some great guests. First up, from Drug History,
Starting point is 00:17:59 Comedy Bang Bang and Brooklyn Nine-Nine makes some noise for Carl Tartt! What up? Our second guest has penned her own intro. From Inside Amy Schumer, Crawl Show, The Simpsons, St. Martin of Tours School
Starting point is 00:18:39 and Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls, give it up for Christine Nagel! Wow. Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha!
Starting point is 00:19:11 You're getting the box! Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Wow! Ha-ha-ha! Holy shit! So for those of us not in the venue, Christine entered through the audience
Starting point is 00:19:41 wearing what I guess is a Rocky-style American flag robe and handing out snacks to everybody. A lot of fun. A lot of fun that was. Snatched everybody's wig. Ha-ha-ha! I have all these wigs. Uh, hi.
Starting point is 00:19:57 That ruled. You guys should go home now. Yeah, that's the peak. Yeah, it was a homemade Nangang. I ironed on Nangang letters on the back. Wait, let me see. Show the crowd. Turn around and show the crowd. Holy shit! Wow, there it is!
Starting point is 00:20:17 Wow! Wow! Hey, hey! That's so weird! Ha-ha-ha! That ruled. Did anybody make any Sandusky jokes yet? Did I miss any Sandusky?
Starting point is 00:20:33 Yeah, there were a couple. Mitch made a couple. Just a couple. There'll be more. It'll be a theme. Nangle, you are from the Philadelphia area. Yeah. So we've got an iconic Philly chain that we're going to discuss today in a bit,
Starting point is 00:20:49 or on the end of this. Wait, wait, wait, Nick, Nick, Nick, before you get into that, I said that there'd be surprises on the tour. Oh, boy, okay. We have another surprise guest, but they're coming in through video. Oh, very exciting. If you want to lower the lights a little bit
Starting point is 00:21:05 and play this message for Nick. Here we go. Can you lower the lights? Wow. Wow. Wow. That's right. That's right, John Taffer. From Bar Rescue.
Starting point is 00:21:51 From Bar Rescue. Should have been Sandusky. There goes the screen to reveal the pipes. Oh, it's pipes like a skyline. Oh, it's like a skyline. That's a lot of fun. Mitch, what was Taffer's cameo rate? Taffer came in at about $100, I think.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Taffer's... Why do you say cameo rate? He's my friend. So, Taffer's cameo is less expensive than Stormy Daniels who you had for our first DC show. That's right. Taffer less than Stormy.
Starting point is 00:22:27 I guess Stormy is trying to strike while the iron is hot because she knows she's not going to have, you know, maybe in a year or two. Whoa, hold on a second. I'm just maybe in a year or two she won't be as topical. Drag her, Nick. So... Drag her, Nick.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Drag her ass. No, I'm not going to drag anyone. Drag the nice lady that made a nice message for you. I liked it. I'm not trying to drag her. I'm not trying to shame her. Drag her ass, Nick. I'm not dragging anyone. It's great to see your tepid reaction to videos
Starting point is 00:22:59 that were such a pain in the ass to do. Wow, look at that! Oh, that reminds me. I did an episode of How Did This Get Played, which is Nick's other podcast. It was really fun. I had a great time doing it, Mitch. Wow. Thank you, Nangle.
Starting point is 00:23:15 We were lucky to have you. I can't wait to be on it. You're not going to come on it. Yeah, no shit. So, Nangle, outside of the... what you're going to cover, Rita's Italian Eyes, what you're going to cover in our late show,
Starting point is 00:23:35 what do you eat? Do you gravitate towards... I know there's a topic we've covered previously on the podcast, but here in front of a hometown crowd, I thought you might have some places that you might like to shout out. No, I don't...
Starting point is 00:23:51 Okay, another comes to mind. Wow. Big swing, Lager. How could you ask me that? Well, that's the only note I have. I did talk about this which was soft pretzels being such a Philly institution.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Yes. And how, like, it was just totally normal that we just had soft pretzels all the time. And did anyone else here... Did you have them at school all the time? Yeah. Why is it such a Philly thing? Is it softer here?
Starting point is 00:24:23 What's going on? It might be. Okay. No, this is a genuine question. Mitch, I think it's softer here because you're in the city. That's good. Someone just said the Pennsylvania Dutch,
Starting point is 00:24:39 which... I guess they need it harder. They pull the dough better because they're Dutch... No, they're German. I knew that. But those are the... I don't want to repeat myself because everyone here
Starting point is 00:24:55 is familiar with my Olive Garden episode. It was my first episode. I remember I did that episode and I walked out and I was like, that was fun, so you'll edit that down. And you were like, no, no, we usually let it go. And it was an hour and 41 minutes.
Starting point is 00:25:11 That's all right. Pretty brisk Doughboyz episode. Yeah. Carl, where do you fall in the pretzel wagon? Are you a pretzel freak? You know what? I'm not a pretzel freak. I'm a closet pretzel freak.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Interesting. I'll say this. At the mall, the pretzel spot with the cinnamon sugar pretzels, those hit hard. Are you talking to Auntie Ann's or are you talking to Wetzels? Auntie Ann's. I'm sorry, it's Annie Ann's.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Yeah. That's why you came here. All right, hold on a second. You didn't hear this. I had an aunt Ann, okay? And I miss her. I had an aunt Ann and I miss her also. Oh, fuck.
Starting point is 00:26:01 All right, that's a draw. So, wait, so you like the sweet pretzel? I like a sweet pretzel. Dusted with some cinnamon, maybe a little bit of that cream dipping sauce? Oh, yeah. All right, a little bit of that sweet cream. Oh, yeah. I guess I always go savory.
Starting point is 00:26:17 And I always go, you know, I like a little bit of mustard or some cheese, some nacho cheese. I feel like that's my usual order. I'm not a salt. I'm a big salt guy. I'll tell you this about pretzels. When they're real hot, like if you had a game or something like that and they're real hot and you dip it in some cheese or something like that,
Starting point is 00:26:33 you're like, yeah, this was a good choice. And then that bitch gets cold and you're like, why am I eating this hard-ass piece of bread? Man, I was at a wrestling show a few nights ago all out in Schomburg, Illinois. Weiger went on a wrestling road trip before he came on tour. I did, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Why? What's the highlight so far? No, it was like, but I'll just say this. I had the worst pretzel of my life at the Schomburg. It was so fucking whack. And it was one of those things where it was like,
Starting point is 00:27:05 I could look at it and I could tell it looked old. I was like, this thing is so fucking just looks like a piece of twisted leather. But I ordered it anyway because I had no food in my stomach. I just had Burger King earlier that day. And then I got it and it was so fucking bad. It was so cold.
Starting point is 00:27:21 And it was like tough. It was awful. Schomburg, consider your ass drag. Well, I feel like there's pretzels that are served. I guess I haven't really seen them anywhere else. But in Philly, they used to be sold on the medians
Starting point is 00:27:37 out of paper bags. Really? You guys do love pretzels. What the fuck? Yeah, there's these vending machines that you... No, there's people. And I don't think they really do that anymore. But they were shaped...
Starting point is 00:27:53 Northeast Philly does. What a place. I'm just kidding. And they're shaped a little differently than they are when you get them at, like, more commercial venues. They're kind of, like, more oblong than the ones, like, the Bavarian pretzels
Starting point is 00:28:09 that we're used to. I think that's the only interesting thing about me. Um... They have two holes instead of three, I guess is the way you could say it. Also the... Whatever. Wow. It's not that kind of podcast.
Starting point is 00:28:33 Oh, yes, it is. All right. Don't be thirds. I had super pretzels in my fridge growing up. No one cares about super pretzels, apparently. Are they way... Those are frozen ones that you heat up in the microwave? Yeah. Okay. I've never had that. I've never had, like, the Costco big box of pretzels.
Starting point is 00:28:51 We were a taquito family. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah, no, we had a big box of super pretzels. You heat up... You put a little water on it, and then you sprinkled the salt on there. Right. It was a dream. It was a dream for me. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:29:09 I like a wet pretzel. Yeah, wet pretzels are... I would... I like a wet pretzel more than I like a dry pretzel. Me, too. Like, the wet, though. Like, wet. Like, soaking wet? Not soaking wet, but wet... wetter. Wet with butter. Got it. Like, sort of fresh... No.
Starting point is 00:29:25 That's not what I meant, but it's fine. You mean wet with water? Like, it's been in the rain? I don't care how it gets wet. So, if it fell... If it fell in the pool, you'd be like, that's cool. Yeah, I would be like, oh, awesome, that guy's got a pool.
Starting point is 00:29:41 That guy? What is this... I don't know. ...scenario? I'm putting myself back in Philly when I lived here and grew up here, mode, and if someone had a pool, that would have been awesome. But we went in the fire hydrant.
Starting point is 00:29:57 No, it's bad. There was a cop that lived on my block and he had a key for it and he would put it on. But in the absence of that, there would be, like, you would find out on a hot summer day, like, oh, the fire hydrant over on Horrocks
Starting point is 00:30:13 and Rosalie's on, and everyone would, like, run over to that corner, and then you'd be like, you're not from my block. It sounds like you grew up in 1920s. I know. It does. It does. Everyone was pushing a hoop in a stick around. Office of cop key would come by.
Starting point is 00:30:29 And we'd all... Our pretzels in the pool. I'll tell you to me about this city what's less realistic come to Philly is that Rocky ever existed here. Just the amount of food that you guys eat, I don't think Rocky would have
Starting point is 00:30:49 made it up the stairs, for instance. The tasty cakes. I've had more sugar today. You guys love... You're, like, hummingbird-level sugar lovers. I've had so much sugar today. It's crazy. A half... Look it.
Starting point is 00:31:07 Look, I'm not trying to get into the restaurant, but a half-and-half, half-ice-tea, half-lemonade at Wawa should not cover all your sugar for a day. That's insane. Says you. Can we...
Starting point is 00:31:27 You know, I think it's about the point where we can start to transition into it because Wawa is... Oh, God. No, what are you talking about? I think that this is now the point in the show in which we should transition into the restaurant. Yeah, we can get into it.
Starting point is 00:31:43 You said I didn't want to get into it. Transitioning. You said I didn't want to get into it and I was telling you that it's fine. I was taking your side. I was taking your side. All right, I want your side, too. We're friends. You're in a movie.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Why do you care if I have another podcast? Myths will be starring as Moon Walker and Moon Walker 2. Mike's back. So, we were in D.C. for a couple of days and close to where we were staying, close to our lodging was a
Starting point is 00:32:25 a Wawa. They have expanded to D.C. and I was contemplating, should we go to this Wawa and I consulted Nangle and I think we decided the right move was to actually go to a proper Wawa in Philadelphia. But... Fuck D.C., right, everyone?
Starting point is 00:32:43 We're gone now. Fuck those people. They suck. I was walking to Target with Yu Song and he was like, I think Nick wants us to go to this Wawa tomorrow. I was like, Yu Song, that's the worst idea in the world. We're going to Philadelphia.
Starting point is 00:32:59 Kill us. You saw what they did to Santa Claus. Was Yu Song on your shoulders? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I carry Yu Song in a baby Bjorn. I have a question, Lisa. You saw what they did to Santa Claus and someone booed. Were you booing what they did to Santa Claus
Starting point is 00:33:19 or were you booing Santa Claus? Was it right that they threw batteries at him? Is that what you're trying to say? They threw snowballs. I worked with a guy from Philadelphia and someone brought up them throwing batteries as well. That guy. Cheering my co-worker.
Starting point is 00:33:35 I worked with a guy from Philadelphia and he corrected us once very sternly because we were like, they threw batteries at Santa Claus and he was like, wait, hold on. We threw snowballs at Santa Claus. There were batteries in the fucking snowballs. It wasn't Santa? Oh, you're saying it wasn't the real Santa?
Starting point is 00:33:53 Oh, that's fair. It was Santa's friend. One of his helpers. We weren't there. Maybe he deserved it. We weren't there. I don't know. It's possible. Look, if you're not Santa and you're going to wear a Santa suit that's stolen valor as far as I'm concerned.
Starting point is 00:34:11 So... So the wall won DC and I checked. I knew we weren't going to go there. I make a living off that shit. Of what? Of dressing up as Santa. Every time early, like early November, I get calls that are you ready to play Santa again?
Starting point is 00:34:29 I say, fuck yeah. Give me my $50 for a day of work at Santa. Every comedy video, I play fucking Santa. I'll do this funnier die, Hyundai branded spot for $75 in the form of a gift card. So...
Starting point is 00:34:45 Wall won DC not well reviewed. And it may be a little bit like, ah, it's got two and a half stars on Yelp. Has this chain not... Because it exists well outside of Pennsylvania, right? But maybe it's expanded a little bit further outside of its original range.
Starting point is 00:35:01 It wasn't always in DC, yes? DC's broken. DC's broken and we all know it. Yes. Got it. Got it. Let me tell you, those fat cats, the system isn't working for everybody. And if elected, I...
Starting point is 00:35:17 Wow. Will make the Wawa in DC better and immediately leave because it's so humid there. It's very humid. Wow. That's all. There was a ton of mosquitoes there too. Fuck DC. A lot of mosquitoes. Yeah. I had a lovely time. Yeah, the blood suckers in DC.
Starting point is 00:35:33 They're blood suckers and they're just taking your money. That's all. That's all. So we went to... We got into Philly. We trained in here. I urinated a second time, which Mitch called attention to. We went to our lodging
Starting point is 00:35:49 and then we went to the South Street location, which seemed like a newer Wawa. It seemed like a newly constructed Wawa. Ooh, mixed reaction. Well, we had a fan we ran into outside who said, I was hoping you'd go to this Wawa, which was interesting. Why he picked that one.
Starting point is 00:36:05 I'm sure there's more than one on South Street. 20th and South Street? Is that it? I don't know the streets here. What... What was that reaction? Oh, shit. They're holding batteries in the air. It's good.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Do they think I'm Santa? Oh, shit. New song. Get the Bjorn. Time to strap up. Meanwhile, that's how I get my batteries. So, the first thing I'll say about Wawa is that it's... is the touch screen ordering is...
Starting point is 00:36:39 I mean, it's the future. It feels like very... like a lot of other chains have appropriated this now. But using it in Wawa, it's like, oh, this is very... this is pretty elegant. I will say that it timed out on me twice. Like twice, I like made a sandwich
Starting point is 00:36:55 and then it said, are you still there or whatever? And I couldn't get it to I saw he was... he had his finger like this and it said order canceled and I waved my hand in front of his eyes. And he didn't react. Maybe your fingers aren't warm enough.
Starting point is 00:37:11 That could be the issue. Got to warm up your fingers. Yeah, it could be my cold blood. So, I couldn't get the... So, I had some issues with it, but it is, like, really nifty to... even though a little intimidating for a first-time customer, which I wouldn't get it to,
Starting point is 00:37:27 but it was intimidating for a first-time customer, which I was... What was intimidating about it? It's like, hoagie, yes, no. Lettuce, okay, cheese, sure, love, Wawa. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Ha, ha, ha. The issue for me is there's so many, like, decision points. There's so many... They kind of get locked into analysis paralysis where I'm like, okay, which of these veggies do I want? Which modifications do I want to make? You know what I mean? It's just... There's so many decisions. No, no one agrees with you.
Starting point is 00:37:59 For me, I'd like to make fewer decisions, but I like that it has the... I know a lot of people prefer a customized ability, and it's easier to get exactly what you want for through a touchscreen rather than through communicating it with someone behind the counter
Starting point is 00:38:15 who's maybe harried and has a bunch of other things going on. Right, because then you'd have to talk to a Philadelphia and, honestly, nobody wants to do that. Ha, ha, ha. I'll avoid it. I'll admit it. Ha, ha, ha. But you guys like the touchscreen. I loved it. I loved it as well. I had no issues with it whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:38:31 Ordered my sandwich. It came out in record time. I tell you what, I did, like, a lot about the touchscreen. I was nervous that I wasn't going to be able to add extra mayo to my sandwich, which is how I like my sandwiches. Extra mayo.
Starting point is 00:38:47 And, lo and behold, goddammit, there was an option for extra mayo. Ha, ha, ha. I was like, oh. Oh, okay, wow, wow. I see you. We outch it. You were nervous. You were talking about that days ago you were nervous
Starting point is 00:39:03 about the extra mayo. I was like, Christine, how does the infrastructure of your city work? How much mayo? I need to add extra mayo to my sandwich. Ha, ha, ha. And when I went up to the screen, it used facial recognition.
Starting point is 00:39:19 I was like, Nangang, where you been? The only thing, there was supposed to be a secret menu on the screen. You're supposed to touch a bird or something? Bottom left. Oh, wow. Don't yell out bottom left of the live show. I think it's on the top right.
Starting point is 00:39:37 Jesus. Sorry. We got to deal with it now. I don't know. You think that's what someone would yell out? Bottom left. What? It's like telling a guy that his date left.
Starting point is 00:39:59 It's a grinder date is what I'm saying. I couldn't find the secret menu. Yeah. It's okay. I was fine with that. I had plenty of other stuff to order. It actually asked me right away, extra mayo. I hadn't even ordered anything yet. Yeah, ask you if you want a mayo outside the bug.
Starting point is 00:40:21 A cup of mayo? Yeah. There is, so there's all sorts of places. I didn't really know what to expect. I'd looked at some pictures, but walking inside, there was just so much stuff. There's cold sections.
Starting point is 00:40:37 There's prepared food that's ready to go. Can I say I got mad at you because you immediately went right over to the cold food section, the prepared food, and picked up like a yogurt with granola or something. I didn't do that. You examined it.
Starting point is 00:40:53 Fine. I didn't put it in my inventory, I just looked at it. And what did you learn? What did it teach you? That they have a lot of Wawa branded snacks. They have a lot of stuff. Okay, I did pick up the Chobani.
Starting point is 00:41:11 Chobani. Nick, we got this. This dirt over here going into a Wawa picking up a Chobani like there ain't a Wawa yogurt right next to him. Excuse you. Jesus. Coming in my city picking up a Chobani
Starting point is 00:41:29 right in front of all my friends. Oh my God. I swear. I'll bring you. God, the Philly accent is... Oh my God, everyone at this table is rock hard. Whoa. Wow, you can't see it.
Starting point is 00:41:45 Did you see the table rising? Sorry. I'm looking at my Google search for Nick Foles. And I'm definitely not helping with that table. But there is like so much and like, you know, there's sections with a, you know, there's warm pretzels just sitting in a section. There's a whole bunch of drinks in another section.
Starting point is 00:42:11 There's all this stuff you can order off of the touch screen. Yes, a convenience store. No, but it's just like, it's a lot of stuff. It's different than what you would see in, you know, a 7-Eleven's not really an app comparison because 7-Eleven's usually have a smaller footprint. But like, it's like, there's like an AMPM, a place that's usually a little bit bigger,
Starting point is 00:42:27 a little bit more sprawling. It's got so much stuff that's specifically branded Wawa. It's specifically Wawa's own food. And it all looks pretty high quality. All of it, but what I tried, like, you know, it seems like it's stuff where they're, they've got pretty good product.
Starting point is 00:42:43 I'll also say, let me touch on this real quick. So I read going in that the bathrooms were revered and that was an element in my intro that I touched on. You were reading about Penn State. I think. So I went in there. Okay, in their favor is that they have
Starting point is 00:43:07 a code on the restroom, but they had the code just like written in tape on the outside of the door. So it was just like, there was no reason for the code to even be there. Two, two, two, two, if you're over there. So we went in, so I went inside and I got to say,
Starting point is 00:43:23 not blown away. It was fine. By the bathroom? By the bathroom, yeah. I was just expecting more. What'd you do there? Number one. That's it?
Starting point is 00:43:34 Yeah, just number one. Okay. Why are you eyeing me suspiciously? I don't believe it. I think I went into a wah-wah and cranked off. Yes. Number three, my friend. You know, it was fine.
Starting point is 00:43:55 I mean, they had soap, which is a huge thing. You know, sometimes you'll go into like a service station bathroom and there's no soap and that's just, it's not hygienic. The toilet was reasonably clean and, but they had the accelerator hand dryer, which is not a great hand dryer. What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:44:12 I just wasn't blown away by it. What? I've never, I've never heard you talk about the bathroom at a place that you reviewed before. Great, I do not listen to this podcast, but I feel like anytime I've been on it, you've never talked about the bathroom. I looked into it because they said it was notable.
Starting point is 00:44:29 The accelerator rules. I don't like the accelerator. Why don't you like the accelerator? It's just, it just doesn't get the job done. Yes, it does. I don't think it, I know. What are your hands? It blows dry, it's one of the best in the game.
Starting point is 00:44:45 Look, I'm really scrubbing up in there, so my hands are pretty wet. Ugh. You taking your shirt off? I think that the, I just think like as hand dryers go, look, I think my issue is with hand dryers in general, but I don't think the accelerator is like,
Starting point is 00:45:07 it's certainly not anything where it's just like, oh wow, these bathrooms are great. They've got the accelerator. I'm just like, well, I've seen the accelerator in like airport bathrooms. Airport bathrooms aren't anything special, you know? I don't know, I just, I had higher expectations for the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:45:20 Maybe that's on me, but it didn't quite live up to them. But let's get into the first one. Wow. I'm just saying. You said it, let's go. I was expecting that shitter to be pristine. It was not. So we went in and we got,
Starting point is 00:45:33 I got myself a, when you order your sandwiches, you can get a junior hoagie, which is four inch, a shorty hoagie, which is six inch, and a classic hoagie, which is 10 inch. And. Just got a hell yeah in the audience. I got a classic hoagie spicy Italian, which is the thing they have right now.
Starting point is 00:45:53 I got it on a, okay. Here's what I'm going to say. If this is about the bathrooms, I'm going to lose my. It's not about the bathrooms. The accelerator just isn't that great. I don't love the accelerator. I'm not a local.
Starting point is 00:46:06 This is my first time in Philadelphia. It's possible. I ordered things in a way that are not, it's not the way you're supposed to order it at Wawa. If that's the case, get on my back. Give me a break. I was doing my best. I was trying to navigate the touchscreen.
Starting point is 00:46:20 I just made some decisions. If he fucked up, boo the shit out of him. So I got a spicy Italian on a wheat roll. No. It's okay. It's okay. I think that's okay. Untoasted.
Starting point is 00:46:33 Here's the thing you need to know about Nick Weigher. He's a bit of a wheat seeker. They're going to get some dietary fiber. So we, it has ham, capicola and salami, garlic, chili. And I believe what makes it spicy is that cherry pepper relish, which is a sauce they put on there. Provolone, spinach, tomatoes, onions, I think are added by default.
Starting point is 00:47:01 And I added to that some pickles and some hot peppers. And it was a, it's a, oh, and I got double meat and double cheese. And that was one of the things where. Wow. I want them back. I wouldn't have done it, but it asked me. And I was like, well, I got to do it. I felt obligated to say yes.
Starting point is 00:47:22 It was a very stuffed sandwich. It was like an overstuffed sandwich. Good to know if I'm ever bombing at a Philly show to just say, double meat and double cheese. Yeah. It's a, and yeah, that was the, that was the sandwich I ordered. Hey. Oh, cool.
Starting point is 00:47:44 Let's uh. Let's just start another podcast. You're good at this. Let's go down the line and everyone say what we ordered. Okay. Um, now I'm not one of you East Coast Yankees. I got what I wanted to eat and I ate it and it was good. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:05 Uh, wait, do Yankee is your perception? I just, I want to let them know. I didn't order. Things that we don't want to eat. Yeah. You just eat too much shit. Too much on there. All right.
Starting point is 00:48:17 So I got, I went simple. I got a classic 10 inch on white, uh, toasted all the way. Uh, ham and cheese, uh, ham, provolone, extra mayo, regular mustard, lettuce, tomato, onions, spicy pepper, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper. Wow. And uh, that's it. I think so.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Oh yeah. I forgot to mention I had salt and pepper and oregano on mine as well. What is it? Did you get it toasted? Yeah. I got it toasted. Uh, Mitch, tell, tell us your order and then I would hear what Nangle got. All right.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Should I tell you just my sandwiches or should I tell you? We'll start with sandwiches. Okay. We got a lot to be fair. That's me and Carl, but there was quite a bit on there. I just got a sandwich. No, no, no. Before you go for that, take the rest of the show up.
Starting point is 00:49:21 I, um, I also bought a bag of spicy hers. Oh yes. Yeah. Hot chips. And, uh, I got a, uh, two YY beverages, uh, a watermelon lemonade and, uh, fruit punch that I have yet to drink because I drank half of the watermelon lemonade. I was like, I'm good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:42 That watermelon lemonade, you showed me the nutrition facts on the back. 51 grams of sugar in a bottle. 96% of your daily allocation of sugar. There's a third, there's a third column there. That's your percentage. If you're from Philadelphia though, and it's just a bunch of question marks. Uh, all right. Let's see here.
Starting point is 00:50:10 One box laxatives. One box extends penis growing pills. Those were a wild wild brand. They got Nick Foles on the packaging. Pennsylvania Dutch. 48 grams of sugar. It's a bottom left brand. It's on the secret menu.
Starting point is 00:50:41 That was it. That was the job. Um, I got my, I got two sandwiches everyone. The first one was a shorty, which is fun. Toasted meatball. Palmer John liked it a lot and then I went in the same neighborhood. I got a junior chicken strips. Palmer John, the chicken, the breaded chicken cutlet sandwich.
Starting point is 00:51:09 Um, they ruled. They were really, really good. I was really blown away by the chicken. The chicken Palmer John sandwich for look. I'm going to save some of that for the, the, the wrap up, but right. It was good. It was surprisingly good. I took a nibble of your of the chicken strip sandwich and I agree.
Starting point is 00:51:32 Guys, please very good. It was not a nibble. I would not have allowed that. I would not have allowed him to do that. He took a bite of the sandwich. Mitch just mimed Nick nibbling his shorty. Oh no. Or wasn't your junior.
Starting point is 00:51:56 It's the junior. I adorably chipmunked Mitch's junior. And I thought it was pretty, I thought it was like quite good. And I liked the meatball. I'd had so much bread at that point that I just had the meatball, but the meatball itself. I was like, this is a like a good quality meatball. Like this is like, this is what, like this is better.
Starting point is 00:52:17 You know, again, better than I expected. Um, my spicy Italian sandwich. First off, it was overloaded. That's my fault. And again, you know, I got paralyzed by the customization, but the quality of ingredients was very good, especially for the amount I paid for it. Like this is just like so much better than a sandwich
Starting point is 00:52:38 that you would get from most subplaces, right? Like what is, this is like, what did you say? Hoagie. Someone fucking escort her out of here. Someone escort Nick out of here. It's a hoagie and it deserves to be addressed as such. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:53:03 A hoagie. I have a college degree. It's fine. It's fine. Go Nick, honey. Look, this is just a, it's a regional thing. You call them hoagies out here. I'm used to calling them subs.
Starting point is 00:53:15 We know what we're talking about. It's okay. Let him be. We know what we're talking about. Let him be a gentle boy. Let him be. So I've been into my sub. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:27 He'll turn. He'll turn. Weigar. This sub was certainly not sub par. You want them back? Your pun won them back. Host it. Host your batteries, everyone.
Starting point is 00:53:42 Host your batteries. We got them back. He said it wasn't sub par. I call it a goddamn sandwich because it's meat in between brand. That's not wrong. I really like the garlic aioli. It's not particularly hot, but it did have a little bit of spice to it. I think the meat was very good quality.
Starting point is 00:54:03 I think the bread was great. Actually, this is a thing, Mitch. You've got just a roll with butter. That's true. I'm getting some applause for that. I like it. Which was fucking insane. It was the shorty one and a six inch roll with butter is huge.
Starting point is 00:54:18 It's so big. Six inches is big to you. We know. Is that too much? No. I agree. It's pretty big. It's normal.
Starting point is 00:54:34 It's normal. Even if it's smaller, it's normal. It's funny because it was basically just like a butter sub. It was cut open with butter inside of it. I liked it. Those were some great bites I had there. They were good. You get it as a side with your mac and cheese.
Starting point is 00:54:53 Which is fucking insane. It's so much starch. Why when you order a mac and cheese? I got a small mac and cheese. Why does it then offer you a roll with butter? Why? Is that a Philadelphia thing? It's in the charter.
Starting point is 00:55:15 I was very surprised. I was happy I got it. It was a very nice bite. It was good. It was a great bite. Carl, how was your sand dough with extra mayo? It was good. Yeah?
Starting point is 00:55:24 It was surprisingly good. I put the chips on it. The spicy chips. That was good. That was a great choice. I applaud myself. Yeah, it was solid. I liked everything about it.
Starting point is 00:55:40 The meat tasted good. The cheese choice was good. I got no complaints about that there sandwich. I had some nibbles of your sandwich. Oh, God. Very adorably nibbled my classic tenage. Classic. Classic.
Starting point is 00:56:05 I think that was my favorite sandwich of all the ones I tried. You're just very basic, simple sandwich that you got. Just the quality ingredients really shown through there. It was delightful. Now, Nangle... Yes, Carl has the best one. What did you say? Nothing.
Starting point is 00:56:24 Okay. Sandwich-wise, what did you get on your most recent visit and do you have a go-to as someone who's been to Wawa a few times in your life? Oh, okay. Yes. Well, I went with my mom and that was fun. I got a shorty on white and they have a roasted vegetable choice. It was so good.
Starting point is 00:56:50 I got double vegetables and then I put a bunch of pickles and onions and vinegar and stuff like that on it. I think they recommended... I think it was cheddar cheese and it was toasted. It was so good. I'm not just saying that because I'm desperate for this to be in the Golden League. I was really, really impressed by it. I also ordered an egg sandwich.
Starting point is 00:57:16 They do these omelets and so my mom and I were splitting them and the egg sandwich was good. They recommended cheddar cheese. I went with it. They recommended it and I think that that was a mistake on their part because the cheddar cheese was not good on the egg white omelet sandwich. Wow. Yes.
Starting point is 00:57:35 That's okay. It's okay. One thing that I did notice, I don't know if you guys noticed this, is my mom was eating half of the veggie sandwich and my mom has dentures and it was too chewy for her. The roll was too chewy, which I then noticed like, yeah, actually the roll was kind of chewy, but I didn't mind that too much. Then I also got a... I got a Tasty Cake Lemon Pie.
Starting point is 00:58:04 Yeah. Like a little lemon pocket, which is something that you can kind of get Tasty Cakes in other cities, but there's only a few that you can get. There's a... Wawa has its own selection and it's just like little pocket that is like covered in like a sugary glaze. Tasty Cakes are pie. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:58:24 Don't look into it. Don't look into it. Don't. Interesting. Don't you dare look into it. And it was... And I also... Oh yeah, and I got a soft pretzel.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Wait, what kind of soft pretzel? A fucking Wawa soft pretzel. No, but because I was like... You told me in advance to go get a soft pretzel and I saw all the soft pretzels there and they have like some room temp soft pretzels and plastic and then they also have under a heat lamp, they have a cheese stuffed and a... What was the one you got? I got both.
Starting point is 00:58:55 You got the cheese stuffed and the other one. I got the cheddar cheese stuffed soft pretzel and the sweet cream cheese soft pretzel. E-A-G-L-E-S Ego. I got the... I got just a pretzel and a bag, you know, soft. So that's the room temp one they have at the register. Yeah, and I always think that they're good. I like them no matter what and I eat them just like with...
Starting point is 00:59:23 I don't even put mustard on them. I just eat them in the car and I think I'll bring this home and then I eat it in the car. And what I will say about the Tasty Cake was it was so good but it was so sugary. It kind of knocked me out for like two hours. I was just like, yeah, it was so sugary. I didn't even eat the whole thing. But it was fun to go to these... I went to a couple of different places while I was home visiting and I was with my parents.
Starting point is 00:59:50 They live out in Hatfield now and... Give the address. 1600 Philadelphia Avenue. But I grew up in the city. Anyway, there was this... When I was waiting for my sandwich at the counter and everyone there was super nice. I went out by them on like a 40-foot road out in Hatfield. Whoa! Or Lansdale.
Starting point is 01:00:14 Maybe that was technically Lansdale. And it's also a gas station. That's all. But they had like little free samples out. I guess they were trying to get people to sample their iced coffee drinks. And they had this like... It was a frozen mocha cappuccino. And they had these little cups out and this lady next to me...
Starting point is 01:00:39 She was like in scrubs. She was a nurse or a doctor or something. And she was like drinking one and I was like, oh, there's free samples. What are those? And she goes, freezing cold coffee. She said it like that was the name of the product. It's a freezing cold coffee. I tasted that and that was super good too.
Starting point is 01:01:00 So, yeah, I was really impressed. I wanted to be impressed and they impressed me. Wow! How often when you were living in Philly proper, how often was Wawa a place you would go to? When I was growing up there... I have a bunch of friends here from St. Martin of Torres High School. And so I grew up in a neighborhood called Oxford Circle and then moved to Northwood. And we didn't drive or anything.
Starting point is 01:01:28 So there was a 7-Eleven two blocks from my house. Okay. So the thing you would do is like hang out at someone's house and then walk to 7-Eleven and then walk back. And that was like the thing that you did that night and you would get like a frutopia. That's still kind of my weekend nights. Still getting them frutopias. And so mostly like growing up until I was kind of a teenager, it was mostly 7-Elevens until I started kind of getting out into the world. And then it was Wawa.
Starting point is 01:01:56 And then when I went to college, I went to college in West Philly and there's a huge Wawa, several huge Wawa's all over campus. And my go-to drunk food was a plain bagel with like triple cream cheese. Wow! I've thrown up more of those than anyone has eaten. So Wawa was big and I always preferred Wawa coffee to like to dunk donuts and stuff like that. Wow. Yes. I'm correct.
Starting point is 01:02:25 It's kind of fucked up. I'm on the right side of history. I'm going to talk about the coffee real quick because I did- It is fucked up, isn't it? Yes, it is. Squeezy. Did you guys notice this guy's Patriots hat? Oh boy.
Starting point is 01:02:37 I was at Super Bowl where you guys won. I agree. You're booing me? They won. The Eagles won. They beat me. The Eagles fans said I was nice. I was a nice Patriots guy.
Starting point is 01:02:55 I was congratulating them. Fuck you. You ruined my day. The Eagles won. Go, birds. Oh, fuck you. Tom Brady said to Nick Foles, look, you got a bigger hog than me.
Starting point is 01:03:10 I admit it. It's funny, one thing I'll say about that. I might have brought this up before, but it's so weird to me that for us, it's totally normal to say go birds, but if you're not from here and people are screaming go birds and there's like just billboards with no context
Starting point is 01:03:29 and say go birds. I would be- If someone was yelling go birds on the corner, I'd be afraid of them. Go birds. Well, either you're supporting birds or you're kicking birds out of the city.
Starting point is 01:03:42 It's just a thing we got. It's just normal for us, but you know, sometimes you got to look at things from an outsider's eye. Right. Go Pats. Someone said man.
Starting point is 01:03:52 Go Pats, baby. Boom. Good. That was my heel turn. I love it. Mitch, don't do this. Mitch, we talked about this. Don't do this.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Don't do this, Mitch. We talked about this. Sorry. Like this is my thing and I just wanted to- Sorry, sorry, sorry. Thank you. Oh, God damn it.
Starting point is 01:04:14 The coffee was- The coffee there is good and they have a huge array of different blends. You can- And I kept it simple. I went with a classic blend. I get the regular blend
Starting point is 01:04:25 because I like a medium to light roast and they're regular. Thank you. And then I revisited the bathroom and let me tell you. It was good coffee and I'll say this in-
Starting point is 01:04:39 This sounds like a slam, but I don't mean as a slam. It compares favorably to 7-Eleven coffee to me, which I like. It's like a quick to-go coffee option and for something that's not
Starting point is 01:04:49 freshly brewed, it's something that's sitting in containers that have been there for a while, for maybe hours. It's good quality coffee. I liked it. It perked me up in a good way.
Starting point is 01:04:58 The pretzels I want to dig into in a little bit. So I also got a cheese stuffed soft pretzel. I liked the savory ones. The sweet one was- Sweet one is string. That sweet cream is a lot.
Starting point is 01:05:10 It's very- I mean, Carl, you like a sweet pretzel. What did you think of that bad boy? I liked that joker. I didn't mind it. Oh, interesting. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:18 I thought it was good. Yeah. It's interesting. It's different. I don't hate it. It's like a warm Danish, which isn't what I was expecting from a pretzel.
Starting point is 01:05:26 Yes. Yeah. But it was pretty good. I think- I was saying earlier that pretzels are kind of ubiquitous in Philadelphia cuisine and to me,
Starting point is 01:05:34 like having the flavored versions or the dipping sauces is kind of new. It's always a surprise. Like, I'm just so used to a pretzel with mustard. I don't know if other people feel that way.
Starting point is 01:05:44 But it's- Like, really, it's just- It always feels new to me. I'm like, oh, yeah, we do that now. When we've been doing it for many a year. It's just always a surprise to me.
Starting point is 01:05:53 I'm like, right, right, right, flavored pretzels. Mitch, do we discuss the mac and cheese? We both got it. We did discuss it too much. I think the mac and cheese
Starting point is 01:06:02 is bad in the best way. What does that mean? It means that, like, it's bad, but I like it. Oh, I gotcha. If that makes sense. Yeah, I know. I get it.
Starting point is 01:06:13 I'll say about the mac and cheese. Yeah. It was better than some fast food places that have mac and cheese. Like, it was definitely better than, like, KFC mac and cheese. Right. Uh, I-
Starting point is 01:06:23 I mean, you know, eating mac and cheese is a damn gas station, isn't it? They're not all gas stations. What this one wasn't. Yeah. Mac and cheese
Starting point is 01:06:35 at a corner convenience store. It made me think- it specifically made me think of KFC's mac and cheese. And I was like, eh, same sort of thing as- yeah, it's like a little better, but it's at that same tier.
Starting point is 01:06:46 KFC's mac and cheese feels so chemically processed now. Right. Like, this one still felt kind of- kind of authentic. You know what this tastes like? If you eat at the hot bar
Starting point is 01:06:57 at the grocery store. Oh, sure. That was that kind of mac and cheese. Right. And I'm fine with that. I got a- so, as far as- you can customize your drinks on-
Starting point is 01:07:09 and I know the crowd here knows this, but for our listeners out there, you can customize your drinks on that touchscreen as well, and they have a very extensive cold drink menu. I got myself a mango poo-
Starting point is 01:07:19 Oh, boy. What the fuck? Mango- Mango poo. Hold on. I was trying to say- I knew I had to say smoothie is my third word.
Starting point is 01:07:28 I got ahead of myself as I was reading. You knew that you had to say the third word? You were planning out the third word that you had to say? I inadvertently made a portmanteau of peach and smoothie.
Starting point is 01:07:41 I had a mango-peach smoothie. That's what Nick had to say when he went number two when he was little. Mom. Mom, I inadvertently made a portmanteau of peach and smoothie. Okay, honey.
Starting point is 01:07:53 Like, till your father gets home. I had a mango-peach smoothie and they let you add yogurt, and I said, sure, why not? So I added some yogurt. It was great. It was a great dessert.
Starting point is 01:08:07 I really liked it. It's like a great sweet treat. And you get a like- I mean, it's like super-duper dense and filling and sugary, but it was delicious. I really enjoyed that smoothie. Mitch, did you get anything
Starting point is 01:08:19 in the drink department? Yeah, let me go back to my list here. So, like I said, I had the Wawa lemonade, half lemonade, half iced tea. The sweetest Arnold Palmer I've ever tasted in my life. This receipt is $900.
Starting point is 01:08:39 If you pour this iced tea in Arnold Palmer's mouth, he's dead. He would come back to life. Let's start pop-locking. I drank that down and then I also bought a strawberry lemonade. And I took a big gulp of that,
Starting point is 01:09:04 and then the lady behind the counter was like, you have diabetes now. She gave me insulin and I was on my way. Insulin in cheese pretzel form. Also, Nick, I just want to go over it quickly. Got myself a bag of hers cheddar popcorn. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:24 You made hers yours. Not as big as the pops I wanted on hers. What's that? Nothing. Yeah, I got a hers cheddar popcorn and then the mac and cheese. That's it. The two soft pretzels.
Starting point is 01:09:42 I did good, everyone. I tried to really fucking... God, you're so mad at us for so long for not doing Wawa. Trying to get everything in the fucking store. I snuck my own treat in there. At the register, they had these things called
Starting point is 01:10:01 Louis Buttercakes. Oh, boy. That's right. I'd like to know y'all's opinion on it. I'm the guy who was just chanting Big Dick Nick. Do y'all like that? What are you doing, Carl?
Starting point is 01:10:28 I don't know what they were saying. I'll take it for you guys are indifferent. I got one of those, is it the Wawa coffee thin? I got a Wawa coffee thin and I set it on top of my coffee cup just to have it a place for it to rest because counter space was limited.
Starting point is 01:10:44 Because it was sleepy. It needed to sleep. It melted. I didn't actually get to eat it as it was supposed to be consumed. What a story. I like that they offer it. I like that they sell it.
Starting point is 01:10:59 But yeah, let's get to our final thoughts on Wawa. We're going to say our review. We're going to give it a fork score from zero to five forks. And, Nangle, I think you should start because I think we know what you're... I think your score is most predictable.
Starting point is 01:11:16 You don't know me. The rest of us are wild guys. You don't know me. Okay, I'm sorry. Don't come over here and be like, I know you. You literally said, I want it to be in the Golden Plate Club.
Starting point is 01:11:30 Yeah, but it can be that with four and a half, right? That's true, yeah. It could be in the Platinum Plate Club. Hi, guys. That was way too much time without me talking, right? So, Wawa. Gosh, what a place.
Starting point is 01:11:48 I had a great experience there. And one thing I noticed is it's kind of like you were saying, Carl, about it being like grocery store mac and cheese because it is just like a mini grocery store and it's kind of gotten bigger over the years. And one thing I noticed when I went in today is like in the kind of like little...
Starting point is 01:12:04 the collars that are there and they have like potato salad and hard-boiled eggs and fruit and stuff was they had eggs, like dozen eggs, and then bacon, like leaning against it, like uncooked bacon. Wow. And yes.
Starting point is 01:12:17 And I was like, that's what Wawa is. It's like you go and you go, like it's Sunday morning and you're coming in from church or whatever and you're just like, oh, you have to get eggs and bacon and they're right there for you. Like, Wawa's like there for you.
Starting point is 01:12:31 And you're like... No, psych. I was not crying. I picked up some peanut chews, which are a filly thing. I don't know if you guys know this. A vegan snack, too. And I...
Starting point is 01:12:50 buy forks. Wow. Wow. Except... but it's forks with a pH. Wow. Huh? All right.
Starting point is 01:13:07 Do you get it? PHO RKS. Like Philadelphia. Forks. No, I got it. Oh, okay. Like the fanatic. Got it. Carl Tart, your review, your fork score.
Starting point is 01:13:18 Let's get one thing straight. I'm not here to pander to y'all. Okay? Just so y'all know that. Some of y'all know my thoughts on this damn city. No. Uh, I've had a good time today. In the city.
Starting point is 01:13:33 Wonderful. Took a solid nap in a basement. I don't know what that life is like. We keep all our guests in the basement. That's a nice basement. I'm from, we have earthquakes, you'll die in a basement. Must be nice. Uh, overall, when we walked in that place,
Starting point is 01:13:53 immediately felt like a tourist. Uh, and, but we got, I feel like overall, I was looking around. We got an authentic Philly experience inside of this. Uh, while, while convenience store. We were ordering our food. We got our orders and everything. Uh, and I kept telling Mike, Mike,
Starting point is 01:14:09 we got to pay before we get the sandwich. We got to pay and, and Nick and Mike at, at a big restaurant. We got to pay and, and Nick and Mike at, at a decision making time is, is like pulling teeth. And so I'm like, come on. I think I'm, I'm just going to have to buy this. But, but, uh, so, uh, inside of there,
Starting point is 01:14:30 there was a dudes that pulled up in a, like a Lincoln and they all walked in and got, wow, wow food. They looked like Philly guys. And one of them looked a lot like Meek Mill. And I'm not saying that as a joke. I'm not saying that as a joke. I was like, what's that?
Starting point is 01:14:46 Like, I know I'm not tripping. Right? That dude looks like Meek Mill. And I looked around and like, try to like confer with my colleagues. And I was like, they ain't going to know. Are they boys to men? It was one.
Starting point is 01:15:04 Yeah. And, uh, quest love was in there. Is Meek Mill boys to men? That's ridiculous. But I enjoyed the sandwich. I enjoyed the chips that I put on the sandwich. Those drinks are too damn sweet. More calories in those 16 ounce drinks
Starting point is 01:15:24 than in a 20 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola. Too much. Did you like it? It's too much. Did you like it? Yeah, it was good. Okay. But I'm just saying,
Starting point is 01:15:35 we don't even know what Coca-Cola is. That is a manufactured flavor. We're supposed to be drinking that. And yet, that is healthier than that drink. We sat down and ate in the wild wild, which not many other people were doing. You just sat on the floor? No, they had like tables outside.
Starting point is 01:15:59 I told Nick, I was like, Nick, I think we should get this to go. Ain't nobody else in here besides this other like, crazy dude in the corner. Filly Cop walked in, had an exchange with the Meek Mill looking guy. But it felt like, it felt like he was like the neighborhood cop.
Starting point is 01:16:16 Like, oh, I know you. And he was like, no, John. And I'm going to give it 4.5 forks. Wow. Wow. The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. All right. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 01:16:42 No, I'm just listening. I just want to know what you think. Wawa to me is a funny name for this place. Because when I'm leaving, I'm not going, wah, wah. Flip it upside down. I'm going,
Starting point is 01:17:00 wah, wah. I am a 7-Eleven loyalist. I loved 7-Eleven my whole life. Hold on. I think there's no, in my head, there's no way that wah-wah can best 7-Eleven, you know. Wow.
Starting point is 01:17:30 But, hold on. I was as wrong as those people who bet on Ivan Drago against Rocky. 7-Eleven is Ivan Drago. Wah-wah was Rocky. Wah-wah knocked 7-Eleven out. I'm going to sing a song to this. I put lyrics to the...
Starting point is 01:17:55 Ready? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second. Wah-wah's good. Wah-wah's great. Cheddar pretzel. Philly cheese steak. Wah-wah is really good.
Starting point is 01:18:23 Wah-wah is really great. 5-4. Wow. I want them back. They forgot about the hat. Uh, Nagle has put on a Philly Fanatics hat. Yes. Very cool.
Starting point is 01:18:51 Philly Fanatics. Philly Fanatic. You know, the team, Philly Fanatics. Oh, it's Singular. It's a guy, not a team. Got it. The Philly Fanatics. I only follow the...
Starting point is 01:19:01 They throw batteries at, um... The Scoogle. Sorry. Look, I only follow the NBA. Um, I enjoyed all the food I had from Wah-wah. I enjoyed the wide selection of food they had there. Is that your view? The bathrooms were really built up
Starting point is 01:19:19 in everything I read about it. Who built up the bathrooms? It is your fault. I did research and do it and people were talking about how great these bathrooms were. Yeah, you googled, like, fast food bathrooms, but that had nothing to do with going to Wah-wah.
Starting point is 01:19:33 You keep a list. You googled hand dryers. I was doing Wah-wah-specific research. Yeah, right. And the quality of its bathrooms. This came off of Nick Voles' dick search. That said, at most I can deduct a half fork for that.
Starting point is 01:19:53 What?! Because the quality of the food is very good. And it's much better than I expected it to be. And the wide array of drinks, the service was very good. We haven't really remarked on it. The service is awesome. But, like, they could be assholes there
Starting point is 01:20:09 and they're not. Like, if you make a mishap, like, you forget to pay, which both Mitch and I did. When I was saying the whole time... Guys, I think we gotta pay. Yeah. It took Carl telling me that, like, five times
Starting point is 01:20:21 for me to do it. I was just still shopping. Yeah, but they'll be, like, 9.74, waiting on payment. And I'll be like, oh, okay. Like, they could be dicks about that, but they're not. Like, the service there was very good.
Starting point is 01:20:33 Everyone was very friendly and efficient. I feel like my sandwich was well made. I feel like my sides were good. I feel like my drink was outstanding. Ooh. Yes. Something about the service. So, I have a bit of a toothache.
Starting point is 01:20:46 Is there a dentist in the house? I went to get a dentist. No dentist. That's a Doe Boys fan. You think a dentist would pay money to have... Doe Boys fans hate their teeth. These guys be like, it was a good meatball.
Starting point is 01:21:01 Here's $25. See, here, like, I go, it was a good meatball. The girl behind the counter. Yes. The woman behind the counter. Sorry. She...
Starting point is 01:21:18 That's a good first start. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. The woman. I was asking for Advil. She gave me some. She was like, do you have a toothache? I was like, yes.
Starting point is 01:21:27 And she said, you should put some clove oil on it. That's what dentists do after they take your wisdom teeth out. And I was like, thank you, Wawa Lady. $4.75 forks. Wow.
Starting point is 01:21:40 Yes. Wow. What does that mean? What do you mean, what does that mean? I don't know what the Golden Blade Club... It's in right now unless Nick ruins it. He already gave us. What did you say?
Starting point is 01:21:56 Did you give yours yet? No, I didn't get my score yet. He's talking about the bathrooms again. All right, sorry. Look, put the bathrooms aside. The food is great. Just the fact that there are bathrooms, it puts a notch above 7-Eleven
Starting point is 01:22:08 in and of itself, because 7-Elevens never have toilets. And everyone was great and they've got a wide selection of food and the food, the prepared food was much better than expected to be. It's like firehouse subs tier. It's like good, like, their subs
Starting point is 01:22:22 are as good as firehouse subs. Togies. Don't be mean to him now before he's gonna give his thing. So I think this one does deserve to be in the Golden Blade Club. Four and a half forks for Wawa. Yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 01:22:45 Oh, my gosh. I was so nervous. I was so nervous. Is the half fork deduction because of the bathroom? It's partly that. Oh, my God. I never think that I could,
Starting point is 01:22:59 I never thought I would say this, but if Wawa's took over all the 7-Elevens in the world, it would be better. The world would be a better place. Interesting. I can't believe, my 7-Eleven is near and dear to my heart, but...
Starting point is 01:23:11 I'll be reporting this to Japan. I will say one thing quickly. Now that we've all logged our scores and it's in the Golden Blade Club, does anybody... So the Pennsylvania Governor's Race, like last year or something, Wawa gave money to the Republican candidate
Starting point is 01:23:27 and Sheets gave money to the Democratic candidate. Oh, interesting. I just, I learned that. It is a thing I learned. Ooh. Let's do a clap about it. It's a thing. What's our audience like?
Starting point is 01:23:40 Boo, they hate politics. I don't know. But us, yeah. All these food corporations are monstrous. They really are. One of the biggest donors of the Republican Party is Coca-Cola. There's no fucking, there's no winners.
Starting point is 01:23:52 There's no correct choice you can make. But it's still healthier than a Wawa drink. Still healthier than a Wawa drink. But yeah, don't try to be ethical in going to chain restaurants, because you just can't do it. Move on from this for God's sake. Why did you bring this up, Nick?
Starting point is 01:24:10 Sorry for introducing this topic. Guys, that was our review of Wawa. We've got some snacks from the audience. And we're going to decide, why should I put it in your mouth? It's the debut of the Snacker Whack Snack Stack. Look at how many snacks you guys brought. You guys brought too much stuff.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Thank you for doing that. But we can't taste all of it. We're going to taste a few choice things. The first thing we have up is federal donuts. That's right. And I don't know what's inside this box. I'm just cracking it open.
Starting point is 01:24:43 It's donuts. It's a snake. Well, it says donuts on chicken on the outside. So I didn't know. You thought there was a live chicken in the box? It's possible. I don't think it's possible. We've got an array of different donuts here.
Starting point is 01:24:56 I don't know what's what. I guess I'm just going to grab something randomly and take a nibble. No, just take a bite. So we all can try the different donuts. Okay, great. I'm going to take a bite of this. God.
Starting point is 01:25:08 This one has... Oh, you brought them? Oh, all right. Yeah. Tell us what they are. What's your name, sir? Matt. Hi, Matt.
Starting point is 01:25:16 Hi, Matt. Six fancy donuts they have right now. They rotate them out every time. Oh, now it's on. Matt, your voice isn't picked up by the microphone. You have no soul possibly. Oh, my God, Matt, you're fucking up big time. This is a real low point for me.
Starting point is 01:25:43 So it's carrot cake. That's a low point for all of us. Yeah. Carrot cake, blueberry muffin. There's a pastelito, which is like a mango thing. One's blood orange. And I don't remember the last one. Cookies and cream, I think.
Starting point is 01:25:54 I think I'm having the blood orange right now, and it's quite nice. It definitely has some citrus to it. Do you want a bite of this? Yeah. Do you want to give this over to Nagle? Do you want to take a bite, not a nibble, because I'm not a dirt person?
Starting point is 01:26:05 Okay. Carl, which one do you have? I think I have the Ponce de Leon. What is this? It's a pastelito. It's mango and something. It's great. Oh, Nagle's handing me something else back.
Starting point is 01:26:15 Hold on. So this is a local donut chain. You sound like it got guava on it. Yeah, that's guava, not mango. Sorry. Okay. Yeah, same thing. It's a local donut chain, and it's run by a guy who does fine dining mostly,
Starting point is 01:26:27 and it's incredible. I prefer municipal donuts. Is that a local spot? No, it's a bad joke. Oh, federal to municipal. I understand what you change. I still don't get it, but I am a fool. These are good quality donuts.
Starting point is 01:26:50 Do they usually come hot and fresh, or do they usually come like this? The fancy ones don't come hot, okay. This is good. I can tell it's good ingredients they make here, and it's a good pastry chef behind it. Yeah, these are good. Carrot on a donut is interesting.
Starting point is 01:27:05 No? I never had a carrot on a donut. Try it. How? How have I not had a carrot? Everyone has had a carrot on a donut. It's how they're served. It's very good.
Starting point is 01:27:17 I'm going to say snacks all around. Yeah, these are snacks. All right, next up we have... Every single donut was delicious. I want real quick, it's just a funny thing that it's like, oh, these are the fancy donuts, because I can imagine like family members might be and like, don't bring back those fancy donuts.
Starting point is 01:27:31 We don't need a fancy, and if you're just coming, we're having beef and beer. We don't need fancy donuts. We're going to try these, something savory. We're going to try these hers famous crab fries. Seasoned potato chips with white creamy cheese sauce flavoring.
Starting point is 01:27:49 So we're going to dig into these. Who brought those? Over there. Oh yeah. What's your name? All right, thanks Chris. Appreciate it. All right, so let's dig into these.
Starting point is 01:27:59 I thought my friends brought them, which is why I brought it up. I don't really care who brought them if they're not my friends. He took two, one at a time. Yeah, chomp chomp pass. Are these a Philly thing? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:28:23 Is hers Philly? Oh, chicken and peets. Chicken and peets. Boy, I love, I really like that. That's like a, it's like a really plused up barbecue, but without the sweetness, it's just that spice.
Starting point is 01:28:35 That's the part you left out, is the chicken and peach, which is a Philly thing. Oh, okay. I think it started in Mayfair. These are great. These are, these rule. These are awesome.
Starting point is 01:28:44 Snack. Snack. Snack. Snack. Snack. Double snack. Double snack. You know the issue with this,
Starting point is 01:28:52 this segment which we cooked up, which I'm realizing is that people, people just bring us delicious things. And so we're just like, oh yeah, this is good. And it's like, Oh, so do we have to eat the whole box? By the way, I,
Starting point is 01:29:05 okay, here's the thing. My mom and I went to Giant because Tasty Cakes were on sale. They were four for $10. And I bought like $40 worth of Tasty Cakes. So there's some over by the T-shirts. Wow. For free.
Starting point is 01:29:20 Anyway, bought a lot of Tasty Cakes. Nagle, did you want us to try those peanut shoes? Or is it for the audience? Oh yeah. All right. We're going to try these peanut shoes. Then we're going to take some questions from the audience.
Starting point is 01:29:30 This is original dark. Does that mean dark chocolate? Yeah. What do you think it would mean besides that? I don't know. Okay. Yes. It does.
Starting point is 01:29:39 One thing I, you know, I want to say this about, wow, they have a lot of fun drinks. I didn't really get to say that. I shouldn't have said this. It's because everyone else said it. Like Kool-Aid Pop. You know the old Kool-Aid plastic bottle,
Starting point is 01:29:50 Kool-Aid Pop things? They were in the fridge. There was fun stuff there. Oh, fuck you guys. It's fun. I brought these because I was handing them out during my opening bit, but I was using Tasty Cake Boxes as boxing gloves
Starting point is 01:30:03 and didn't think, oh, how am I going to give out the peanut shoes if I have Tasty Cake Boxes on my hands as boxing gloves? So I didn't get to give them out. So that's why I have them here. These are delightful. All right. The Goldenberg's Peanut Shoes.
Starting point is 01:30:17 This is great. I really like the peanutty flavor inside and the dark chocolate is a nice compliment to it. I told you I wasn't here to pander. I'm going to whack on these. Wow. Wow. What's how you like about them?
Starting point is 01:30:28 My personal preference is not to eat dark chocolate. I don't like it. I think it's nasty. Boom, me. God damn it. Carl, you revealed a... The Pasta León Donut was a snack. A whole snack.
Starting point is 01:30:43 The chips, a whole ass snack. This? Not for me. Carl, you revealed that you have some... You have a mild chocolate allergy, which I haven't heard of before. Yeah. When I was growing up,
Starting point is 01:30:54 I think I have grown it now. Outgrown it, okay. It makes me... It gave me eczema. So you have a little bit of an aversion to it. Maybe even just psychologically. But dark chocolate just should be outlawed. Wow.
Starting point is 01:31:05 Dark chocolate is nasty. Wow. Who wants to eat that? Candy is supposed to make you happy. Wow. It's supposed to make you feel good. Carl feels hurt. It's supposed to reward you.
Starting point is 01:31:14 Why would you want to eat poison? I go snack on these. They're not... I like the other two better, but I still go snack. I also might have to put down like a newspaper later, because... Why is my spot the messiest?
Starting point is 01:31:29 We didn't plan well for this. We should have had a roll of paper towels or something. We just got a bunch of junk all over this lovely tablecloth. It'll be all right. Guys, that was the snack or wax... The next deck. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:31:41 Do we put this back if anyone wants their snacks back? Or do we just take this with us? Yeah, we can put it in my room back at the Airbnb. Just like a restaurant by your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. So we've got some audience questions we got from you guys earlier. Who's our first questioner?
Starting point is 01:31:56 Who do we have out there? We got Breanne Needles. Hi, Breanne. Needles, like Back to the Future. Oh, there you are. Like Flea's character from Back to the Future 2? It is. Needles.
Starting point is 01:32:07 Yes, yes, like Back to the Future 2. Right. She hates it. He was always kind of scary. So my question is, what is your pre-show ritual if you have one? Hmm. I heard a...
Starting point is 01:32:24 Can I share this? This is not my pre-show ritual, but a thing I heard... I'll say this is alleged for my own protection that Bill Maher before every episode of Real Time jacks off in his dressing room into a silk handkerchief. Flex King. I was a page on that show.
Starting point is 01:32:47 Were you ever on handkerchief duty? Yeah. It was after the show started. New rule. I want these hand washed. Man, that's nasty. I mean, I don't really have a pre-show ritual. The three or four hours leading up to a show.
Starting point is 01:33:11 Yeah. You can usually find me on the toilet. Just sitting. You know what I do? I'm backstage. I'm sitting in the wings just before I walk out, and I usually will text my wife and I'm like, hey, I'm about to go on.
Starting point is 01:33:25 I'll talk to you in a bit. And that's what I do. I usually send a nice little message to my spouse, and then she'll usually reply with something supportive. I usually do a prayer circle and I make our guests join me. Yeah. Regardless of their religious affiliations. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:43 We pray to Allah. No, I just like will watch Wyger like being like saying to himself like in 1927, two brothers came together and I watched him do his like weird little thing. Oh, right. And then I'll usually order a drink or something and be like, did I forget anything? And I usually have.
Starting point is 01:34:03 I've woken up from a nap usually. Right. And I'm like, yeah, bathroom, bathroom mostly. Bathroom was correct. You got to get the lead out before you get on stage. Bill Maher does it. I just do it in a different way. I do the Ray Lewis dance where I shoot somebody.
Starting point is 01:34:28 Thank you, Needles. Next question. Thank you, Needles. I guess often do a silk handkerchief. Thank you. Oh my God. Next question. You got Sarah Armstrong.
Starting point is 01:34:37 Hi, Sarah. Where are you at? There you are. Sarah is way over in the other wing. Nope. She's left. Sarah's left. She walked out within the first five minutes.
Starting point is 01:34:49 Oh, no, here she is. There she is. She's over there. Big fan. I was actually at the show last night in D.C. Hell yeah. Wow. What are you doing?
Starting point is 01:34:59 Sorry, this one's not as good. What the hell? This one's twice the show of that shitty show. No, I'm from Philly, but I live in D.C. now. But anyway, my question was, are there any chains that you had an embarrassing moment, or restaurants in general, where you had an embarrassing moment at one point and so now you're too nervous to go back to that restaurant or chain? Boy, that's a good question.
Starting point is 01:35:27 Not a chain, but there was a pizza place in Westwood Village, which is just south of UCLA, where I went to school, where I, it's called La Monaca's Pizza, and it was one of those pizza by the slice places. And I got up to, like, I ordered my pizza, and I got to the register, and they handed me my pizza, and I just, like, I just turned and started walking out without paying. And the guy was like, hey, man, what the hell?
Starting point is 01:35:50 And then this other guy was, like, standing in, like, in my way, and he, that other guy, that customer, starts going like, he was going to run out on you. I stopped him. But he was going to run out on you. And, like, I went back to, and it was, like, this guy had shamed me in a pain, and I was like, well, I can't go back here. This was humiliating.
Starting point is 01:36:07 I also had another incident where I went to a, there was a gas station where I used to get a fountain drink every day as, like, a, you know, a work break. I was working an office job in the video game industry, and I would go there and get a fountain drink on my break. And one day I was saying to the guy behind the counter, and I was like, oh, thanks, man. There's a guy I saw every day, and he goes, ma'am, like, he's all offended.
Starting point is 01:36:31 Like, I called him, like, a woman, and he took that as an insult. And I was, like, so startled by it that it didn't react. And then I was like, well, now I can't go back there. This guy thinks I insulted his honor. Can I be real with you? You need to stay inside. That's what I'm saying. So I don't want to do these tours. I've told my story before, but I, back in my first year in LA,
Starting point is 01:36:55 I worked on this movie, The Trouble with Romance. Oh, you've never heard of it? I was a PA on that movie, and it was Gavin Newsom's wife was the star of it. Her current wife? Yes. Kimberly Guilfoyle, or whatever name is? Yeah, that's his former wife. His new wife,
Starting point is 01:37:16 not new, but it's Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who has this amazing organization called Misrepresentation. That's really cool stuff. Jennifer Siebel was the... Yeah, dude, who booed him. Yeah, you booed her. Misrepresentation does some really awesome work. I know about nonprofits.
Starting point is 01:37:35 She was the star of this movie. There was one bathroom on set, and I... As I said to you, I had to get the let out, which was confusing, you said. I had to go bathroom number two. I said I had to go bathroom almost. I had to go... I had to take a number two.
Starting point is 01:37:54 I didn't think it was confusing. I just thought it was pointless. Christine, his ass is a good. His ass is a pencil. Yeah, that was like a mechanical pencil thing. I didn't realize it was a gun thing. Look, I had a shit for God's sakes. Oh, my God. And I went to a Burger King,
Starting point is 01:38:14 and the men's bathroom was out of order. This is real. And I've said this before, but I'll say it again. And there was a unisex handicap bathroom, and I went in there and I had a movement, and someone knocked on the door when I was in there, and I was like, fuck, this sucks. This is like my nightmare. I hate that more than anything.
Starting point is 01:38:34 A big guy, I'm taking a poo, and it smells bad. This sucks. And so I was like, I'm also in a handicap stall, so when I opened the door, I started to walk with a limp. And so I was walking with a limp as I was walking away, and there was this little old lady, and she went, help me into the bathroom. This is true.
Starting point is 01:38:58 I stopped limping. I gave up on that because she knew it was bullshit. And I held the door open for her and helped her into the bathroom. This is real. And she went, ugh, it stinks in here. It was one of the worst moments of my entire life. That's it. And I would go back to that BK in an instant.
Starting point is 01:39:29 Any embarrassing chain moments from either of our guests? No chain moments. I'm on my best behavior when I go into chains. I have slipped and fell in the club before. Oh, wow. In front of some girls. And it was in a puddle of liquid, and it was all over my ass when I got up.
Starting point is 01:39:49 Oh, no. That was pretty embarrassing. Yeah, not the club. In the club, straight in the club. Oh, no. Yeah, mortified. This is not a chain story either, because like Carl, I'm always on my best behavior in a chain.
Starting point is 01:40:05 Right. Because you know they can tell you, you can't go to the other chain locations, so you got to be careful. This is a story about how when I was 14, I went to a corner store a couple of blocks away from my house. A couple of people there in the audience were there when this happened. We went to, my mom was making Christmas cookies,
Starting point is 01:40:29 and she ran out of flour, and so we walked to the 7-Eleven, the aforementioned 7-Eleven, they did not have flour. So then we took whatever, the $5 cash, and we walked to Maddie's corner store, and it got robbed at gunpoint while we were there. And it's a funny story these days, but the funny thing is my friends,
Starting point is 01:40:53 I was like paying, and they were waiting for me to hand over cash so that the cash register would open, and then the person ran around, and was like taking money out of the cash register, and this little old lady was yelling, and like, I'm watching it happen, and none of my friends were with me. They were like another part of the store,
Starting point is 01:41:07 and I was like, oh, that must be her grandson. And like, I just was like, oh, okay, I'm just like, watching was 13 or 14. And then my full reaction was to go, guys, guys, guys, guys. And then we saw the person at a sawed-off shotgun. Jesus Christ. Okay, so in my mind, this is kind of a funny whimsical story, but saying it out loud and seeing how upset everybody is.
Starting point is 01:41:36 I now understand that maybe it isn't. But the person jumped over the counter after robbing it and fell, and my friend Ann Sticko is in the audience right now. She was walking up, and all she saw was a person fall, and she started laughing. That's good. And then the people ran out, and I was trying to explain to my other little teenage friends
Starting point is 01:42:01 what happened, and this woman ran up, and she's like, what happened? And we were like, the place just got robbed. And she was like, oh, my God. And she ran out. In my memory, it was like a cartoon character with her arms waving above her head. And then we later found out that she was like a decoy
Starting point is 01:42:18 because she was ordering meat in the back. And then the two guys that were like cutting meat in the back were like, get back here. And then a bunch of like four 14-year-old girls were like, we didn't do it. And they were like, okay, you can go. And then we just left. And then we ended up with something like that.
Starting point is 01:42:35 That's wild. I forgot to say my most embarrassing moment was that time I robbed that store. And boy did I tell you I fell. It's the name of the store. Carl's always fallen. It was called the club corner market. One more question from out there in the audience.
Starting point is 01:42:51 Who do we got? Chris De Silva. Hi, Chris. Where are you at? That's a cool name. Where are you De Silva? Chris De Silva is like an alter ego of a Marvel superhero. That's great. Thanks.
Starting point is 01:43:09 You're welcome. Yeah, you did it. No, I love it. I'm kind of piling on to the Rocky stuff, I guess. But we all know that Rocky gets his powers from his breakfast of raw eggs. And so I'm wondering what's like the breakfast that gives you energy for your day?
Starting point is 01:43:29 Even if it like, you know, isn't your favorite breakfast to eat? I have an answer for that. I also want to point out there's some cool, there's Taco Bell shirts in the crowd. That's cool as hell. Very cool. Oh, it's the Bachelorette party. Greek yogurt gives me that power, Nick.
Starting point is 01:43:49 Greek yogurt gives me the power. Mitch, on this, you and I are in agreement. I'll have a little bit of Greek yogurt with some fresh berries. Not the one kind that's got fruit on the bottom. I'll get plain yogurt, I'll get my own berries, and I'll combine them. I get the faye, I do the little fold with the faye,
Starting point is 01:44:10 and you put the stuff in the other side. So much sugar in that. And you're not as much fiber, because you're not getting the whole fruit. I get whole fruit and I put it in there, it's true. My mama makes it for me when I go home. And I plan on having one this weekend when we're in Boston. That's fun.
Starting point is 01:44:27 Yeah, Greek yogurt and fruit is my answer. Do you get any power breakfast for Nangle or for Carl? I've gotten into hard-boiled eggs recently. And I'm just going to say this, scrapple. Wow. I don't actually eat scrapple anymore, but I wanted to feel applause before the end of the show. There's scrapple in the back, actually, in the green room.
Starting point is 01:44:51 They made us a plate of scrapple. Big old bowl of fruity pebbles. There you go. You were upset about the sugar content of the drinks. Because I had to read it. What's your guys' favorite breakfast cereal of all time? Is it fruity pebbles? Fruity pebbles is my favorite.
Starting point is 01:45:09 I would say, I might say cookie crisp, because it's so loaded with sugar, but it's just so good. But honestly, I got a soft spot for cap and crunch. As much damage as it does to the roof of your mouth. I always find it's worth it. Oh, yeah. I skip cereal, and I get a wawa egg and cheese hoagie, baby. There you go.
Starting point is 01:45:29 Jesus Christ. What? You think I'm pandering? Yeah, you're clearly pandering. Yeah, it's the end of the show. I'm going to pander. You know what? When the Eagles beat the Patriots,
Starting point is 01:45:40 I was like, that's pretty good. Guys, that's our show. Carl Tartt, Christine Nagel. You song and Abba. Until next time, for the Spoonman Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. See ya.
Starting point is 01:45:55 Thank you, Billy. Breaking chews. We're doing live shows in Vancouver on February 20th, Salt Lake City on March 10th, and Denver on March 11th. Tickets and info available at headgum.com slash live.

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